"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٧] (٣٩٦/٣٢٠)

FOR THE TEAR 1919. g
No trouble of any kind was experienced from the Kashkulis from the time
Fars, Tubes and Shiraz. tlle -B ^yhire Field Force entered their
country till they left the Garmsir.
The Darashuri were <c yaghi " though they never came into conflict with
the Force. Ayaz Kikha remained with the great majority of the tribe in
opposition to the Ilkhani Sirdar Ehtesham, while Nasrullah Khan who had been
appointed Kalantar by the Governor-General of Fars, and who had the tribe
snatched out of his hands by a coup d'etat on the part of Ayaz Kikha, was
friendly. He, however, took no steps to try to get his own back again. In
March Ayaz Kikha wrote in to the Deputy Political Resident to say that he
would submit to any orders given him and Lieutenant-Colonel Gregson, C.M.G ,
C.I.E., was deputed to meet him in Lirawi and he promised to either go himself
or send his son to Bushire. He sent his son to the Parman Farm a, though no
settlement was made. The Ilkhani demanded his eldest son as hostage for the
good behaviour of the tribe when he was with the Kashkuli in Shahpur. He
sent his youngest son, but no settlement was made and matter stood as they
were till all the tribes had migrated to their summer quarters when Ayaz
K.ikha was reinstated as Kalantar aad still remains so.
Early in March the Deputy Political Resident and the Darya Begi went
to Bandar Asalu and met Soulet-ed-Douleh. He stated that he had merely-
obeyed the orders of the Persian Ministers and leading Mullahs and therefore
•should not be punished. He suggested going up to Tehran to submit to the
Persian Government. J.t was not advisable that he should go by land therefore
he was pressed to go via Mohammerah and Baghdad but he refused to go The
Shaikh of Mohammerah then suggested that he should act as mediator between
the Soulet and the Farman Farma but this was dropped as the Farman Farma
objected.
Finally it was settled with the approval of the Government of India that
Soulet should deposit £10,000 in the Imperial Bank of Persia in Shiraz, should
sign a bond on oath, not to interfere in tribal politics, send his son Nasir to
Shiraz to stay with the Farman Farma and live quietly on his own estates.
Sirdar Ehtesham toured from Firuzabad to Kazerun and stayed in the
Shahpur valley some days before moving the tribes up to their summer quarters
He was urged "to take action against Nasr Diwan but refused, as he said he was
too occupied with Ayaz Kikha and the Darashuri.
The Farsimaidan, though they never actually took hostile action against
the Force, harboured Nasr Diwan and his fellow rebels and showed their
sympathy plainly.
The summer passed very peacefully in Shiraz. There was considerable
irritation and discontent among the tribes with the Sirdar Ehtesham regime, as
he extorted more than the traditional revenue out of many of the tribes. The
South Persia Rifles were about to settle down to a period of training when a
mixed force under Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. K. Eraser, D.S.O., M .C., w r ere
ordered to Ispahan to help the Bakhtiaris to deal with the famous robbers Reza
Juzdani and J afar Quli. This expedition was a brilliant success resulting in
the complete breaking up of the gang and the capture of the leaders, who were
fiuhsequently executed, and raised the prestige of the South Persia Rifles very
considerably. The column returned to Shiraz at the end of August.
Nasr Diwan gave himself up to the Farman Farma in the middle of August.
An arrangement was made under which he was banished to Darab for two years
and the Qawam undertook to be responsible that he aid not leave the town.
Muhammad Ibrahim, the Farrash Bashi, was arrested and imprisoned in the
Ark and put on trial. This trial is still dragging on.
The Autumn move of the Kashgai tribe to the Garmsir passed off quietly
"without any incidents of importance; this is doubtless due to the piesence of
troops at Shiraz and on the road.
Haji Seyed Agha Moin -ut-Tujjar, the Residency Agent, has been in
Behbehan all the years. In May Nasrullah
Behbelian - Khan went on Khairabad and was seized by
Ali Bad Jalil, one of the Boir Ahmadi Kadkhudas, Muzaffar Khan came and